Cypress, TX
2.27.2021
In August of 2014 at the University of North Carolina, Crystal began her graduate studies in Biostatistics and met Daniel, who had entered the same program the year before she did. They took little to no notice of one another despite being in the same research group and having neighboring desks. One year later, being the former high school choir nerd that she is, Crystal enrolled in voice lessons and was in need of an accompanist. Lucky for her, labmate Daniel was quite the talented pianist. It wasn’t long before Crystal and Daniel were regularly headed out to practice rooms for jam sessions with music genres ranging from opera and musical theatre to pop.
An entire year later, Crystal and Daniel discovered another shared passion: street tacos. By now, Crystal realized she had a pretty big crush on Daniel. That evening, Daniel and Crystal found themselves headed out for some spontaneous late night tacos. Now on the one hand, this was excellent news. Was Daniel interested? Maybe! On the other hand, Crystal had just eaten a massive burrito for dinner and had little to no appetite for any more food for perhaps another 4.5 days. But she couldn’t back out now! After (begrudgingly) eating just one taco, Crystal and Daniel spent about four hours in the university quad playing guitar and singing duets. Can you say “dreamy?” When they finally went home, Crystal was on cloud 9, and Daniel thought to himself “Wow, I just spent a pretty long time with this girl. I guess that wasn’t so bad.” Eventually, “not so bad” turned into something more, and their relationship officially launched on 09/20/2016 with music, tacos, and swing dancing.
Daniel and Crystal’s ensuing relationship achieved 1 ER visit, 2 perforated eardrums, 3 more years of grad school misery/accomplishments, and countless late nights of playing music in the park. After they both graduated with their doctorate degrees, Daniel and Crystal made a big move up north to Boston, MA for their first big kid jobs. When their 3rd anniversary came around, they made plans to visit Cape Cod (or “the Cod,” as Crystal accidentally calls it).
They headed out to the beach just before sunset with guitar in hand. After a few duets, Daniel serenaded Crystal with an original song. As if that wasn’t romantic enough, he then pulled out their “Adventure Book,” a scrapbook of their relationship. He had added pages for a number of events that had occurred since the scrapbook’s last update. The last page of the book was bare except for a caption, which read “9/21/2019: The day you said ‘yes!’”
Casey
Michael
Anna
Nuvan
Jonathan
Jonathan
Joshua
Barbara
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Friday, February 26th, 2021
Northwest Houston Vietnamese Alliance Church
5133 Addicks Satsuma Rd, Cypress, TX 77084
Ceremony (Time TBA)
Dinner to Follow
Saturday, February 27th, 2021
The SPRINGS in Cypress
12612 Malcomson Rd, Cypress, TX 77070
Ceremony (Time TBA)
Dinner and Drinks to Follow
Element Houston Vintage Park
(Book Now)
A block of rooms has been reserved for $96/night. All rooms include a kitchennette, and all reservations include free WiFi, parking, and breakfast. Please use the link above or mention “Nguyen-Luckett Wedding” on the phone to reserve your stay at group rates!
George Bush Intercontinental Airport
35 minutes to Cypress
Recommended for most airlines
William P. Hobby Airport
45 minutes to Cypress
Recommended for Southwest airlines
More information coming soon!
We are registered at Amazon.com and Crate & Barrel.
We ask that there be no boxed gifts brought to the wedding. It sure would be difficult to bring gifts home with us to Boston! Both registries will allow you to ship directly to us. A box will be available at the reception for any cards.
Coronavirus Alert:
1. Can you tell me more about the Vietnamese tea ceremony?
The tea ceremony is the traditional wedding ritual performed in Vietnamese culture. The bride and groom pour tea for their parents and grandparents while receiving blessings or marital advice in return. Please note that it may be difficult to hear some of the more intimate parts of the ceremony which are performed without a microphone.
The main difference for guests is the procession. The family of the bride gathers inside the sanctuary upon arrival. Barring any inclement weather, family of the groom and any friends are asked to assemble outside and follow the procession inside when the ceremony begins.
We know that attending a Friday event may be difficult for many, but we hope you’ll join us if you are able to make it!
2. What is the recommended attire?
For the wedding on Saturday, we recommend semi-formal: your favorite suit, dress, or pantsuit.
For the tea ceremony on Friday, we recommend “dressy casual” (see here). We also welcome ao dai, a traditional Vietnamese style of clothing, or any traditional attire from your culture.
However, we hope that you will feel free to come as you are, whether that’s in a t-shirt and jeans or your prom dress!
3. Is any part of the celebration outdoors?
4. Where can I find parking?
5. Will transportation be provided?
6. How should I submit my RSVP?
7. Who is Bishop?
8. Will Bishop be at the wedding?
9. Why is your website a little clunky?
11/23/2019
You may have noticed we don’t have an equal number of groomsmen and bridesmaids on our main page of this website. We’ve opted to just call our wedding party an “I Do Crew.” This decision was made for a few different reasons, but, primarily, we didn’t want to have to fight over who got to stand on whose side just because of gender. Each member of this incredible crew is friend or (future) family to us both. At the end of the day, we know they are not rooting for just one of us, but for the both of us in our marriage.
Okay, I’m done being sappy - onto the crafts. I took this project on to (1) be cutesy and (2) to test a couple of crafting techniques that I was hoping to use on later paper crafts for our wedding.
What the heck is a proposal card? Just a little greeting card, sent in the mail or in person, to “propose” that a person be in your wedding party. Basically, one of those Hallmark industry made up things, but it’s pretty hard for me to turn down a DIY opportunity. We went through a few drafts to get the process down as well as the aesthetic/vibe we were going for. We ultimately decided to personalize each card with a handwritten message. Because we were leaving the inside blank, the project became a lot easier from a crafting perspective.
Single use supplies:
Cricut supplies:
We chose to use some free fonts we found on dafont.com: Made The Artist Script and Neris Thin. These fonts are used throughout our website and will be used on forthcoming wedding stationary. Once downloaded and installed, these fonts are available in the Cricut Design Space software that is associated with Cricut machines, as well as all your other text editor software.
Designing the card itself is fairly simple. A rectangular shape creates the cut outline, the line across the middle is set to “score,” and the text, “Will you be in our” is set to draw. I typically find that the custom material setting on the Cricut works better than any of the presets. In the software, I then select the appropriate material (medium cardstock here), and the software then guides you through which tool is needed when (fine point pen, scoring stylus, or fine point blade) for you to switch out and continue. I found the light grip mat to work better than a standard grip; the standard was too sticky and would leave most of my cardstock still stuck to the mat after trying to remove it.
Working with the adhesive foil was only about 50 times harder. First off, when cutting a material into cursive text, you must manually place the letters to get the letters to connect as though written with a single pen stroke. The “weld” option in Cricut Design then tells the machine to treat all the words as a single object rather than independent letters (so you get “hello world” as opposed to “h e l l o w o r l d”).
Here I again used custom material and selected adhesive foil. Definitely use a light grip mat, as the foil is a much daintier medium. Unfortunately, the Cricut brand metallic foils are not very sticky, making them very difficult to transfer. The foil comes with a paper backing, similar to stickers that are sold on wax paper. The Cricut adhesive foil setting knows to cut very lightly, only cutting the foil and not all the way through the backing as well. You then have to “weed” the cut foil, i.e., remove all the background parts surrounding the letters (the holes in the letters “e” and “o”) without removing tiny pieces (punctuation, the dot on the letter “i”). I won’t lie, this part was the worst.
BUT it was definitely worth it. Finally, you have to carefully use transfer tape to relocate the letters from the wax paper to the cardstock. Again, the foil is not that sticky, causing the letters to move around on accident and no longer having that cursive writing effect.